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Big Fish Audio has joined forces with the engineers at Vir2 to create RiG - a Kontakt-powered virtual instrument that has been designed to create instant inspiration for producers of Urban music.

Featuring over 1200 patches and 26GB of samples, RiG contains multi-sampled instruments plus a wide variety of loop-based instruments all divided into seventeen categories: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drum Banks, Drum Loops, Electric Guitar, Ethnic, Horn Section, Keyboards, Orchestral Hits, Organs, Percussion and Harp, Percussion Loops, Piano, Sliced Loops, Strings, Synths and Vocals.

The RiG interface is really easy to use placing all parameters right at your fingertips allowing quick customisation of your sound. RiG includes a custom synth step fx editor allowing limitless combinations of gate effects, arpeggios, sequenced pan effects, attack and decay, and low and hi pass filters. You'll also find a loop playback interface allowing you to access and edit individual slices of the included loops.
RRP: £129.00 / €149.00

Watunlib.com, a Website offering virtual instruments for Kontakt, has just opened. This site is currently offering three products (downloadable demos on the site):

Watunlib is a virtual instrument of the standard and unconventional playing techniques of the Aquasonic Super Mondo Waterphone, including the ability to tune the samples!

Loop Kontrol is a Kontakt multiscript, allowing to create rythmic and melodic loops and runs.

- Wind Chimes, a virtual instrument containing samples of various wind chimes (wood chimes, glass chimes, mini mark tree, bass mark tree). Besides the usual glissando and stirring effects, the individual rods and tubes of the mark trees are recorded with three round-robin and the possibility to tune these samples!

Ultimately, Watunlib.com would like to sample other musical instruments, always in a spirit of originality and innovation, offering products at affordable prices.

Finally, for those who fear the blank page, Watunlib.com offers entertainment and promotion purposes Flight Kontrol, a free little game to play with in Kontakt!

The Audio Express connects to any current Mac or PC via FireWire or high-speed USB 2.0. Connect your mic, guitar, keyboard, and digital input, and you are ready to make pro-quality recordings in your personal studio.

Some Features
- 6-input, 6-output audio interface for Mac and Windows.
- 6 x 8 physical input/output channels — all channels are available simultaneously and operate independently.
- Hybrid FireWire/USB 2.0 connectivity — connect to your Mac or PC via either bus-powered Firewire or hi-speed USB2.
- 8-bus digital mixer — routes and mixes all six inputs to any output pair.
- Four separate mixes — each output pair (main outs, line outs, S/PDIF out, and phones) can have a completely different mix of all six inputs, with or without computer tracks.
- Two mic/guitar combo jacks — provide hi-Z 1/4" guitar input or XLR mic input with phantom power, 20 dB pad, Precision Digital Trim , and plenty of gain.
- Stereo analog inputs — on line-level, balanced TRS quarter-inch jacks. Great for keyboards or other line level-input signals.
- Stereo main outs — on balanced TRS quarter-inch jacks. Connect directly to powered speakers (or other line-level analog destination).
- Stereo 24-bit 96kHz S/PDIF digital in/out.

Electric Guitar Chord Kit contains a massive 4.98Gb sampler instrument playing 800+ chords and 460 notes. Includes both up and down strums. Enables easy song writing by using the included 'Intelligent Chord Instruments' and chord progressions. Developed solely for song writing, 'Electric Guitar Chord Kit' is a new advanced guitar sampler instrument that re-creates guitar strums. Play any Major, Minor, Diminished, 7th, 9th Power chords and single notes in five guitar tones up and down strokes. Implements interval-based legato sampling. Enables you to play all up-and-down chromatic scale steps up to an octave.
Includes a kontakt script playing up and down strum groups. 'Electric Guitar Chord Kit' has full real time control over all expressive factors like dynamics, bend direction/speed, bend type, and vibrato.


Some features
Size: 4.98Gb
5x Guitar Tones
808x Chords
460x Notes
Interval-Based Legato Sampling
Over 100+ Nki Instruments
Intelligent Chord Instruments
Up & Down Strums + Script
24 Bit 44,100hz Wav
Kontakt 2+

TC Electronic adds dual radar display to the LM6 loudness radar meter algorithm for TC TouchMonitors with software version 1.11. Now loudness can look twice as good!
In essence, TC TouchMonitor TM7 & TM9 is the ultimate loudness meter solution, featuring touch screen, an extremely consistent loudness readout and compatibility with e.g. American, European and Japanese broadcasting standards.

The TC TouchMonitor TM7 & TM9 is a full-featured stereo and multichannel loudness and true-peak level meter, which is perfect not only for broadcast ingest and transmission, but also for post, film and live production. To comply with a given international broadcasting standard, the numbers representing loudness are paramount, and these all-important digits are displayed instantly on the large color touch screen.

Softube is pleased to announce two new offerings that extend its partnership with audio hardware legend Tube-Tech. The ME 1B Midrange Equalizer plugin and the Classic Channel now join previous Softube Tube-Tech releases, allowing musicians, engineers and producers affordable access to more of this faithfully-modeled, vintage audio gear than ever before.

The new ME 1B midrange equalizer plugin, a clone of Tube-Tech's classic mid-range EQ, joins the Softube/Tube-Tech CL 1B compressor and PE 1C "Pultec" equalizer to round out this collection of complementary sound sculpting tools. Each plugin has been painstakingly programmed to capture that true analog tube mojo and indefinable mystique that Tube-Tech commands.